The Twelve-Mile Straight a novel
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930. Two babies-- one light-skinned, the other dark-- are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. Elma begins to...
| Main Author: | Henderson, Eleanor (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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